The 2023 NFL Draft promises to be unpredictable.
Not long after the Carolina Panthers traded away a haul — two first round picks, two second-rounders and upper-crust wideout D.J. Moore! — to move up to the top spot, reports suggested the club wasn’t quite certain which of this year’s quarterback prospects would be its guy. The presumptive top non-QB selection, Georgia defensive lineman Jalen Carter, was charged with reckless driving and racing on the night a teammate and UGA staffer were killed in a car accident. There’s a stacked class of cornerback talent, but no one’s quite sure just who the No. 1 prospect will be.
That makes this year’s mock drafts even more of a crapshoot than usual. Each team’s player rankings are different, and the current draft order is merely a template to be torn apart by trades leading up to and including draft night. The only certainty is that this year’s passers will be a commodity after the 2022 class proved to be a marshmallow-less bowl of Lucky Charms.
With that in mind, I dialed the QB value slider all the way up and made this year’s top tier of prospects — Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, Will Levis and Anthony Richardson — my top four picks. Let’s see where they ended up.
MORE: Our latest “consensus” mock draft looking at who the experts are taking.